Japanese

After almost eight years in Hong Kong, the time has come to leave this amazing place and relocate to London. So, it is with a very heavy heart that I must say goodbye to Hong Kong’s delicious restaurants and seeRead more

When browsing through the lanes in Central looking for some kind of fancy dress accessories, as we do all too often in Hong Kong, I came across Chotto Maki, a brand-new grab and go sushi place. It caught my eye,Read more

It would be fair to say that the restaurant scene in Hong Kong is heavily influenced by dining trends from around the world, trends that often make a restaurant extremely popular in the beginning, until it is replaced by theRead more

People generally think of CE LA VI in California Tower as a place to enjoy a glass (or three) of Champagne up on the rooftop, overlooking Hong Kong’s impressive skyline, and seem to forget, or ignore the fact that justRead more

Having been mightily impressed by new pan-Asian restaurant Fang Fang when I reviewed the dinner menu in July, I was very excited to try its newly-launched Sin-Tok-Ho set lunch menu to see if Fang Fang, the ‘mesmerising opera star’, couldRead more

It took a while for Hong Kong to grasp the idea of South American cuisine combined with Japanese flavours, but now that it has, this concept is appearing everywhere! First there was Djapa, then TokyoLima, and now we have Uma Nota,Read more

You wouldn’t automatically connect a chef from New Orleans with a Japanese restaurant. Chef Max Levy, however, has been working in sushi restaurants from New York to Tokyo. His popular sushi and cocktail bar in Beijing, Okra 1949, opened itsRead more

I was pretty devastated when Hong Kong lost its only Peruvian restaurant last year, particularly during those times, of which there were many, when all I wanted was an authentic Peruvian Pisco Sour. So when I heard that Pirata GroupRead more